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A loan with me, a shout back to la la la la. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, my luck with a young man. And may say, pay me. I know i may lay, im a man on luck the men mark to run a. Ready for no might be a number in the home there and no you say, hoping molly lot away beside your shift or one bottle that the sugar gland head, a fisherman mafia muster. And what do i say when it must allay had gone a dont and then shop, but dont know what you meant. And no mister in buffy. Hey, Marcia Miller pallet told me how to roll. I so have no way i met my feet. I had mclee rush, im with mom me. So i little mom made a domain, none and none that to she ah 11 on was one of the 1st countries in the region to have it is laquisa on factories. We are democracy. But in vin life, its not that a demo. Krista has certainly been hijacked. Its a resemblance for them. Walker, we live on corruption everywhere. Yeah. We have one of the oldest democracy in that a book, but the democracy is not functioning well because its not responding to the benefits of the citizen. Oh, we are in an era when a lot of people are angry. Ah, they are on discontented with their leaders and governments for not being able to deal with economic challenges like growing in equality and declining social mobility. Ah, and a lot of people are willing to vote for politicians who dont seem to have a lot of concern for those democratic and i a willing when they come to power to ignore some of the limits on their power. Ah, and making sure that that power is not, and that means a long standing tension. And i have been studying the development of democracies and dictatorships for much of my professional life. Ah, were in a period of what some social Sciences Call democratic recession. Now that has to be taken in context because what happened at the end of the 20th century is we had an explosion of transition to democracy, an explosion of dictatorships. That collapse. Wow. Yeah. How many of those democracy not surprisingly with quite neat, but saddening. Whats also happened is that democracies in places that we took for granted that we assumed were solid, that we assumed were no longer threatened by autocratic tendencies. These democracies have also proved to be much more vulnerable than we thought. Ready ready a lot of people make arguments about democracy being for sale or hijack. Its very hard for me to understand how we can have something approximating political equality with the degree of social and economic inequality that we have. Sort of tragic example of that in the middle east, of course is lebanon. Ah oh ah. I was born in the war when peace came, we were hopeful that something good would come out of a we were occupied by foreign country by syria. Ah told me for this occupation, for a long time until 2005, when the occupation just left the country and this huge manifestation that took place on the 14th of march, where we actually believed for once that this was our chance to create a country ah. C and then everything collapsed. The political id just decided to cut the piece of cake and share some of each other in. When i was a close, they taught us what the 1st state would be. I can tell you that were definitely on the last trucks of switching the felt state lebanon was built as a safe haven for all the persecuted minorities in the middle east. But the problem with the system with this country is that we couldnt build a system that answers the Diverse Society that you have in lebanon. Oh, its about having an i versus the living in a unique system. And the system not answering the needs of them. I dont, 11, if you ask someone, would you rather have any group from your own sex that might be caught up, or somebody from a different sex, but you dont or anything about them to this one . Its mainly when you understand this and you understand the problem is within the system, then you understand why these people are caught up. And when they come to office, they dont work for the better of the state and the citizens. They work for the method of their party and their group. Me you have a society that historically been carved up in terms of power and wealth by these different confessional leads from these different religious and social groupings. And it just becomes a kind of a leap, cabal, to extract the wealth of the society and serve the different, competing a lead interest, but not the collectivity, not the society as a whole. Now, here in 2021. We are in the 15th Consecutive Year of democratic decline. Mm. The democracies fail for many particular reasons. They may be extremely corrupt and self serving with the leads that are not governing well and serving the public trust. People get a dissolution with the ruling elites and parties, ah, and when people see that the rulers they have elected are serving their own interest rather than the public interest. Its very alienating, its very d molar. Moralizing. Its very infuriating people are supposed to be able to choose their politicians and those leaders and governments are supposed to come to power and put in place policies that help make peoples lives better. And that is what democracy is all about. With what weve seen over the past several decades is governments that have been increasingly either unable or unwilling to do that. So if we look at the trends and the last few decades, we can see some very troubling trends. Growing levels of inequality. A sense that the future is going to be much less certain than we expected during the post war period. And in these kinds of contexts, people are rightly angry. Ah, people become vulnerable to the p of populist, illiberal. Are authoritarian leaders who say, im the answer . Trust me and of course them, when you trust in authoritarian populace, things get even worse. Ah, another really critical political trend of the last decade is an unprecedented number of protests against existing governments. Whether democratic or undemocratic is for corruption, for lack of responsiveness across the globe. And i think more and more lebanese are recognizing this are seeing verse and wanting a new social and political bargain in the country. Oh, still be 17. Was the turning point in my life, that was the chance people were fed up because the government, instead of thinking of the forms were thinking of, i think texas, we want something new. This is finished with cookie. Dont, dont be able to spray it at 7 pm. It will only 3040 people. And so we started getting messages and people started coming with him. It was 40000 people in school. For the 1st time old confession or religious effects, where im with was individuals just voicing their concern and their anger against a slogan of that illusion. 11 was everyone mean everyone. Everybody needs to be held accountable for every action that they have done in this political system. For the past 30, the 1st demand was for the government to resign the government to sign. And then we ask for formation of a new cabinets of independent people come back with will going to have not come out of the streets until the government stepped out. And a new government is going to come up with that. They are professionals and they dont belong to any sectarianism to any Political Association with any of the ones that we have currently with a form that have been it wasnt made of independence and the Political Class, faith to gifts with them now and nothing happened. And i think with and we thought that we had to do nothing with them. We discovered that has layers ah august 4th explosion came and we lost houses, lost people and lost oak in the process of ever finding a solution to the problem that you are in the 3rd explosion and the well apparently it comes after hiroshima and nagasaki in all of the stood half of the city and killed more than 200. 00 people in cost. I think 5000000000. 00 in losses. So many people data so many ah, tense, if not hundreds of thousands homeless as a result of bad governance because governing really isnt happening. And the logic of rule in a country like lebanon isnt to govern. Its to divide up the wealth and power of the country. So it was a corrupt Political Class that had agreed to put massive explosives and the point of bade woods. And that just blew up and nobody to now is held accountable for this. We live in that smarts corruption, that even human life is not worth it anymore to those people. Its not just that they failed us. Its that they attribute on i have an n g o. So when the explosion took place. Unfortunately, we had tims and place for unstructured because you had already done that because you have to know that in lebanon, its personal initiatives and Civil Society who does the work of what a state should be doing. Because we do not have a state that had with whoever. So here for could im talking on a little bit and lawyers are a bit of gossip shipple fecal here that that so how that can and then they know what the month about martin. Hey they alyssa, me of is me away. The few im at sad mom levy calling from us in a open. Okay. So hey, that came at the pseudo oven muzzle title in feature built in as little so little her here or both of our lives understood or if it did any by man. I next year rabbi pulled her mother and she said, ill make yourself a little de leon. Ah, with its back. Youre entering in a tunnel which cannot see the lights at the end of it. I dont think anyone hate a sputter. Everybody never knew his anguish. Since uprising in october 2019th, when the bank is open and people went back to the bank, they had limits on their, with their own 2nd talk was the gun and he started evaluating they, we had a fixed rate for that. It needs pounds was 1. 00. It was 1571. 00. It was 15000. 00 and the oh. So today we live in another enough inequality and that has never been and never known. So had a station price increase the receipt evaluation. This is the economy called the more inequality we have, the less democracy we have i know nothing about equality of incomes. It says nothing about a quality of wealth, but it does say that everyone must be politically even. Rather, the problem really is when social and economic inequality seep into the political sphere, there is no doubt that wealthy citizens have more influence over political outcomes than poor ones. Those who are already very wealthy use their wealth to corrupt the politicians. So when you have concentrated wow, the temptation of the extremely wealthy is to use their economic power to converted into political power through lobbying political controls so that they can then reproduce their amik concentration of wealth. And you get into a vicious cycle. Ready me democracy does not succeed in the app, but because we do not know how to deal with democracy, we have dictators there just people who just want to fill their pockets. Who are thirsty for power. Who want to apprentice in order to stay under the spring was a hope for everyone. It started in tunisia by this decision of this fruit vendor. And tunisia whos dignity had been repeatedly violated and humiliated by petty corruption by the police to emulate themselves. And that was the mission switch because it spoke to the sense of humiliation that arabs broadly felt by abusive, monopolistic, corruptive, already about justice and dignity, respect for them as individuals which all of these era dictatorships deny the our bring, this is really quite upsetting to people who study democracy the whole was, was that, that democratic wave had finally come to the part of the world that seemed to be most immune to it. But of course, that democratic wave failed these uprisings failed because mainly of the regional dynamics that there were so few democracies in the region that there werent others that could, could come to their aid. The anger at old dictatorships was massive, but the ability to build new democracies was not yet there. Oh, governments can respond to the needs of their citizens. Peoples main thing, what we learned from lebanon is that democratic governments have some legitimacy simply by being democratic rights. But if those systems are corrupt and if they are unresponsive, they will lose legitimacy as well. And democracy will not be able to thrive in those kinds of circumstances. Ah, its my last, but this is the last time im going to fight. And if this does not happen, i dont want to see my children fighting the same backwards again over and over again. Noon. The solution for me is for us deeper does tend to realizing that this is tough, norman, wow, im sad. Its like its simple canada, thats what were living and its not accepted. Its not okay to accept that our leaders just are corrupt, kiddos, and its fine. And this is the ethical crisis where and when we start questioning, its when we start changing as long as were not questioning, we cannot change we still have some to make change in the country, but every day, oh dreams are coming blower. No of a dream is she can eat to morrow and she can have the model if we can fill out cards with gus. So this is how much the country became a grave for dreams, especially for the scene was sold the cool moment. Usually lets use a model but at a simon and events that are jimmy. Jimmy canup is at a gym and hes sort of beat him to free to paki another year. But different. Ready ready joe from. Ready a letter the letter to home now, but im not finding my, you know, my, it has been done with take off a ganga Media Censorship and the rise of all their italian rule. You wake up one day, the system has been turned from an electoral democracy into a competitive authoritarian machine. I looked at the loss of power in hungarian me to the experiences of those who live it every day. That is a pressure on us, but we havent to be very careful, of course, and we have to be brave enough to support that question. How democracy dies. Democracy may be on al jazeera, both jen and his and the police violently discussing protest this. 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